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OMG, Nicki! PLEASE make an old broad happy and consider supporting--I mean, even just Liking the page will probably help--NEST (Nurturing Exceptional Souls Together), whose mission is to help adults over 40 w/Down syndrome and their single sibling caretaker (or surviving parent) to gain residence in intentional (i.e., cohousing) communities to be built (throughout the United States) with this main purpose in mind. I started this fledgling nonprofit in honor of my brother John (aka Guppy dearest), an adult w/Down syndrome whom I took care of by myself for 7 years (he died in Sept. 2012; I'm bereft...). Please ask your people to have a look at the FB page, to read the "About" section. Oh, Guppy would be so psyched, may he have fun in heaven, and so will I. In any case, I adore you. It's a pleasure getting to know you via *Idol*; I wish you were my daughter. <3 www.facebook.com/NESTnonprofit

Nicki. I am a social worker in Franklin, VA and my department is conducting fundraising events now through June to raise money for Child Abuse Prevention, April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. We are collecting donations from local companies, auctioning off tickets and items we have gotten from sports teams, and we are wrapping up with a Poker Run on June 1st. We have done fundraisers for Child Abuse the last 2 years and we are hoping to raise more money than our previous years this year with all the help and support we can get for this worthy cause.

PowerPlay, NYC - a program that educates and empowers young women through sports - gave me an opportunity of a lifetime to come out of the *PINK* Houses projects in Brooklyn to eventually graduate from Harvard University. I believe you should support them because they are on a mission to help young women nationwide become more confident, competent and connected to other positive young women. After I joined this program at 16, I was inspired to take my education seriously, dream big, and gain mentors that lasted a lifetime. For more info, visit: www.powerplay.com or www.miahall.net. Thanks!

Sickle Cell Foundation hardly have any funding for Sickle Cell besides donations or from the annual sickle cell walk which we hardly have any funding coming from. we need more funding for the research and treatments. we need more education about the disease and most of all we need to break the sickle cycle. Sickle Cell is not a widely known disease such as cancer or autism and all the known diseases out there that has funding. we need to be heard and get educated the most. It killed some of my friends slowly and I want it to stop. People should not have to live by the life expectancy of this disease people should live past the age and wont worry about when there going to die and Live a happy healthy life. If you help us out you will not be only helping me that has the disease; Im looking for us to help the younger generation that has it because they deserve to have a better healthy live and those younger kids are my future love kids and want to see them be successful in life no matter what. Love you Nicki.

Sickle Cell Foundation we need help in funding for more treatment and hopefully a cure for sickle cell anemia. I can tell you about the hurt and pain it cause us to have sickle cell and yet we still strive to see another day.